Presidential Debate Moderator and CNN Correspondent Candy Crowley Speaks at ISU Tuesday

Moderator of the Presidential town hall debate, Candy Crowley, of CNN, will discuss election results 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Sun Room at the Memorial Union.

The lecture is part of the 20^th anniversary celebration of the ISU Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics. Crowley was the first woman to moderate a presidential debate in 20 years.

Crowley is CNN's chief political correspondent and hosts an hour-long program called “State of the Union with Candy Crowley.”

She has covered the presidential campaigns of Pat Buchanan, Ronald Reagan, Jesse Jackson, Edward Kennedy, George H.W. Bush, Bob Dole, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Howard Dean, John Kerry, Barack Obama and all but one of the national political party conventions since the presidential nomination of Jimmy Carter, according to her bio.

The lecture, sponsored by the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics and the University Committee on Lectures, is free and open to the public.